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Photograph of Pauli Murray

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Pauli MurrayThe Civil Rights and LGBTQ+ icon who fought Jim and Jane Crow

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ConspiracyDid NASA fake the Moon landing?

Historian Caroline Dodds Pennock (Photo by Ellie Grace)

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Caroline Dodds Pennock“Indigenous Americans were horrified by inequalities in European society”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Billy the Kid, also known as William H Bonney, was one of the most notorious gunslingers in the Wild West

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Billy the KidThe Wild West's most wanted gunslinger

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The long fight over abortion rights in the United States. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Emmett TillThe murder that reshaped the American civil rights movement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 4The road to resolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 3Dangerous days. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

On Havana waterfront, Cuban soldiers wait by anti-aircraft artillery, after receiving warning of an invasion from the United States

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Max Hastings"If the Americans had bombed Cuba in 1962, escalation would have been almost inevitable". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scene of the 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' at the Disney World in Orlando, Florida, 1971

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Why we should remember...The day Walt Disney World Resort in Florida welcomed its first guests

Charles V of Spain depicted on a 16th-century gold coin

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Kwasi Kwarteng"Wars are bloody expensive – so the only way nations can buy what they need is by printing their own money". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The USSR showcases its military might at the 1961 annual May Day parade in Red Square, Moscow. (Photo by Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images)

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Nuclear fall-out: how the USA & USSR became bitter enemies

Rosa Parks rides on a Montgomery bus

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50 important historical events: from Sutton Hoo to Rosa Parks

Around 200,000 freed slaves, like this soldier, joined the Union military in the Civil Wa

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The Emancipation ProclamationYour guide to Abraham Lincoln's proclamation

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The CIA: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

East German leader Willi Stoph greets West German chancellor Willy Brandt at Erfurt. (Getty images)

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Cold War summits: how USA & USSR leaders worked to end the conflict. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev together

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What brought a thaw in the Cold War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bridal accessories, including lace gloves and pearls (Alchemia | Dreamstime.com)

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Beyond fashion: 6 accessories that reveal changing attitudes in society, from the Georgians to the 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

National Woman’s Party activists sew a star onto their ‘ratification flag'

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Why we should remember…The 19th amendment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War allies Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin (left to right) at the Yalta Conference in February 1945. East and west would soon become bitter rivals, however

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The Cold War: 9 key questions

George C Marshall, architect of the Marshall Plan, which pledged billions of dollars to help rebuild war-torn Europe

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What was the Marshall Plan?

President Truman, seen here in 1948

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What was the Truman Doctrine?

Craig Charles and Muhammad Ali

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My history heroCraig Charles chooses Muhammad Ali. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Hollywood history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Reverend Spencer Parsons, head of the Chicago branch of the Clergy Consultation Service (CCS), an interfaith group dedicated to helping women obtain abortions before 'Roe v Wade'

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The American clergy who helped women get abortions before Roe v Wade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard Nixon at the White House with his family following his resignation as president, 9 August 1974. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Richard Nixon's final address: the day the president departed the White House. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Reconstructing black lives in the Antebellum South. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Moses Roper, the first African-American fugitive from slavery to make a home in Britain

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Moses Roper: the story of an American fugitive from slavery in Britain

A painting showing a man and woman side by side with somber expressions. The man holds a pitchfork.

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What great paintings sayAmerican Gothic By Grant Wood, 1930. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Newspaper front page with headline 'Gen. Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer'

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